Glove.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE NEWMAN GITT, OF HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA.

GLOVE To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE N. GITT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hanover, in the county of Yorkand State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Glove, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has reference to improvements in gloves of the typewherein the front portions of the second and third fingers are madeseparate from the palm portion of the glove and are sewed along theirfront edges to said palm portion. The purpose of making the front halvesof the second and third fin- .gers separate from the palm portion is togive a greater pliability to these two finger portions of the glove andto take the seams away from the front of the fingers, in which latterposition the seams are liable to wear and when the fingers are bent suchseams double up and crease. By placing the seams at the back of thefingers the seams simply stretch when the fingers are bent and do notcrease. By making the front halves of the second and third fingers ofseparate pieces from the palm portion of the glove they mustof'necessity be sewed thereto. It is, however found in practice thatthreads used to hold the front portions of these two fingers to the palmportion of the glove ultimately wear out long before the glove itselfbecomes sufiiciently worn to be discarded. The result is that the upperedge of the palm portion of the glove rolls back on the palm more orless and the front sections of the second and third fingers pull out andthe fingers of the wearer are exposed at these points. The glovetherefore becomes useless, both because of the uncomfortable feelingproduced by the bunching of the leather when it rolls back on itself andbecause of the fact that thefingers of the wearer are exposed. For thisreason gloves made in the manner just described, that is, with thesecond and third fingers having their front halves of pieces separatefrom the palm portion, are often discarded long before their usefulnessotherwise is at an end, and, consequently, the advantages of thefullness and flexibility of these two fingers of the glove are notappreciated because the glove has not the wearing qualities of a glovewhere the palm section and the finger sec tions are all in one piece.

Now, the object of the present inventionv is to obviate the difficultymentioned. That is, to so secure the front pieces of the second andthird fingers that they will hold their places Specification ofLettersPatent.

Application filed April 22, 1907.

Patented May 19, 1908.

Serial No. 369,626.

in the glove even after the threads used to sew them to the palm .havebecome worn and pulled out from their connection with the palm.

To this end, the invention consists in pro viding the palm at a pointcoincident with the division line between the second and third fingerswith a flap or extension, a divided flap, integral with the palm portionand adapted to lie in the crotch between the second and third fingersand to be sewed to said fingers after the latter have been sewedtogether and to the palm portion of the glove. This produces at thispoint a reinforcement which effectually unites the bases of the frontportions of the second and third fingers to the palm of the glove sothat even when the original sewing which unites the front sections ofthe fingers to the palm of the glove has become so worn as to no longerhold these parts together, the fingers will still be held in place bythis reinforcement, and the uncomfortable bunching of the leather atthis point due to the rolling back of the palm, is avoided, while thefingers of the wearer are not exposed because the glove fingers cannotany longer pull loose from the palm of the glove.

The invention will be fully understood from the following detaileddescription taken in connection with the accompanying drawings formingpart of this specification, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a glove constructed with a singlereinforcing tongue; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the second and thirdfingers of the glove and so much of the palm thereof as is necessary toillustrate a different form than that shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is adisplayed view of the palm portion of the glove shown in Fig. 1; andFig. 4 is a similar view of the palm portion of the glove used in thestructure shown in Fig. 2.

In the drawings, the glove shown is of the ordinary gauntlet type, butthe invention may, of course, be applied to any other suitable type ofglove.

In the type of glove shown there is a palm portion 1 which is formedintegral with the front and a portion of the back of the first finger 2and the front portion of the little or fourth finger 3, and this palmportion has also a cut-out 4 for the insertion of the thumb, whichlatter is designated by the reference numeral 5. The thumb of the glovewhen inserted is provided with the usual reinforcement band 6, and theentire glove is provided with a cuff 7 as is usual in gauntlet gloves.The back portion of the glove corresponding to the palm portion 1,though not shown in the drawings, may be considered as having the backportions of all four fingers formed integral therewith, and the firstand fourth finger portions of the palm are sewed directly to the backportions of these fingers formed on the back of the glove. The frontortions of the second finger 8 and third nger 9 are made of separatepieces sewed directly to the back portions of those fingers formed onthe back of the glove, while the lower ends of these separate portionsof the fingers 8 and 9 are sewed to the upper edge of the palm, which isappropriately cut to receive these particular finger portions. By thismeans these fingers, i. e. the second and third fingers 8 and 9, may bemade much more full and therefore more flexible and comfortable than ifmade in one piece with the palm section 1. The manner of stitching themeeting ends of the front sections of the fingers 8 and 9 and the palmis indicated by the rows of stitching 10 and 11. These rows of stitchingare therefore ex osed on the upper edge of the palm of t e glove wherethe finger sections join therewith. They are thus subjected to wear to agreater extent than other portions of the glove and ofttimes become soworn as to pull out long before other portions of the glove have becomeappreciably worn. The upper edge of the palm where it'joins these fingersections will 1pull away from the finger sections and the g ove tends atthis point to curl over, forming an uncomfortable bunch in the palm ofthe love close to the point of junction with the 'ngers. Also, the lowerends of the front sections of the fingers 8 and 9 pull away from thepalm of the glove and the hand of the wearer is exposed at this point.The glove thereupon becomes uncomfortable to the wearer and isdiscarded, even though the rest of the glove may be wearable for a longtime thereafter because it is not materially worn. In order to removethis objectionable feature of this type of glove the palm section isprovided at a point coincident with the divislon line between the secondand third fingers with an integral flap or tongue 12, either in onepiece, as shown in Fig. 3 or divided into two parts, as shown in Fig. 4.

In the instance shown in Fi 3 the tongue 12, which is expanded lateral yto fit into the crotch between the two fingers 8 and 9, is laid thereinand sewed fast to these two fingers by appropriate stitching.

In the structures shown in Figs. 2 and 4 the tongue is split into twopieces 1212 of about equal width, and these two pieces are separated andsewed to the base of the finger pieces 8 and 9. It will be seen fromthis that the two sections of the fin ers 8 and 9 are connected directlyto the palm section by the tongue, in either form shown, and thisconnection is so located that the line of stitching is not subjected toany particular wear more than any other section of the glove. For thisreason these finger pieces will remain in permanent connection to thepalm and this without the use of rivets or other such fastening devices,which latter are objectionable for various reasons.

It will be understood that the palm section and back sections of theglove may be made of two pieces sewed together, or these parts may bemade of one piece, thus doing away with a seam along the first finger.Nor is it material what style of seam is used in the glove. Myimprovement is equally appli cable to gloves made with out-seams or within-seams or with weltseams.

I claim 1. A glove having the front sections of the second and thirdfinger stalls formed of separate pieces from the palm portion and sewedthereto, and a divided tongue integral with said palm portion andextending between and having its separate portions sewed to therespective finger sections.

2. A glove having the front portions of the second and third fingerstalls formed separately from the alm portion and sewed thereto, and adivided tongue formed integral with the palm portion and sewed to thepieces constituting the front portions of the second and third fingerstalls at the crotch between the meeting edges of said fingers.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE NEWMAN GITT.

Witnesses:

H. E. HoKE, HoRAon' D. BECKER.

